Content Writer Assessment

If you were a better cook, you ______ need to eat out all the time.

______ you like to go out this evening?

He ______ finished cooking when we arrived.

Go to the end of the street and turn _____ right

She reads everyday ______ she isn't serious.

I wish it ______ the time of the year when I could go on holiday.

We could cook dinner. ______ , we could buy some take away food.

There were ______ than fifty people in the audience last night.

I ______ to work when I saw Rajesh.

The decision ______ early was the correct one.

You suspect that your customers aren't as happy as they once were. First, existing customers seem to be ______ you for the competition almost as fast as you can get new ones. Second, your company has started to become the butt of bad jokes at conferences and in the press. So how do you set about measuring, and improving, your customers' satisfaction?

It's important to see things through their eyes. You can ______ your service for yourself, or watch your customers using it.

A further option is to carry out some qualitative research with your customers. Whichever way you choose, the objective is to identify the ______ on which customers will form their judgement of your service, so you can frame your questions accordingly.

It would be foolish to think you could know all of those questions, let alone their answers, at the ______

But your reputation is at ______ if you fail to deliver. Don't embark on a customer-satisfaction exercise unless you are prepared to act on the results.

If you ask people what they are unhappy about and then do nothing about it, you will leave them more disillusioned with you than ever. And remember that it's a ______ target: today's satisfied customer is tomorrow's bored one.

A service level that ______ the button today may be considered downright sloppy in six months' time, such is the pace of change.

I’m having trouble _____ you. Could you please speak a little louder?

I _____ to podcasts in English. It’s a great way to learn.

My computer is great, but ____ operating system isn’t very good.

If we don’t pay competitive wages, we’ll _____ some of our employees to our competitors.

I know a lot about Microsoft Excel. If you ________

_______ I work on this all day, I’ll never finish on time.

My team will definitely have the work done on time. ___________

My previous boss always insisted _______. He didn’t tolerate people arriving late.

Everything is a bit confusing. I’m not sure _________

No one has volunteered, _______

The retreat was held in a(n) _______

We will have some important visitors here tomorrow. _______

All of the people at the school, including the teachers and _______ were glad when summer break came.

To __________, Anne was on time for her math class.

In Edgar Allen Poe’s _________ Edgar Allen Poe describes a man with a guilty conscience.

Watch out for the broken glass ______

Choose the sentence below with the correct punctuation.

In spite of the fact that our budget for advertising is now higher, our sales figures have not gotten any better.

In the event of an emergency, such as a fire or earthquake, please exit the building as soon as you possibly can.

The reason I’m having trouble with my computer is because the antivirus has not been updated at all recently.

Carlos speaks English fluently, and can also speak Portuguese at an intermediate level, and in addition he is capable of conversing in German.

There is a possibility that I might get together with some of the people in my MBA program this weekend.

Could you tell me how can I get in touch with Mr. Yamamoto?

We’re not sure he is enough experienced for the position.

Do we have some coffee or tea to offer our guests?

We regularly conduct emergency drills for ensuring that we are prepared for an emergency.

It’s a really excellent opportunity and one that you should definitely take advantage of.

She is professional, courteous, and she always comes to work on time.

We consider the candidate to be a very good fit for either of the two positions.

We would like to offer congratulations to all the people who participated in and completed the training program.

"I've been asked to speak at one of the most important conferences for the rail equipment industry. The conference takes place every two years and is usually attended by over six hundred _______

Speaking at the conference will be a good opportunity for me to help raise my company's ______

I'll be one of the ________ speakers, and I'm planning to talk about how the industry can best meet the requirements of new environmental legislation which will be introduced next year.

I'll talk about some of the obstacles my company faced when trying to achieve ________ with the rules, and how we were able to overcome these challenges.

We will be celebrating our tenth year in business next year, and we've just ________ on a plan to grow the business by opening two new sites over the next twelve months. 

We ________ our bank about four months ago to talk about different ways of funding the expansion. We had been working on the growth plans for several months by that point.

As a result of these conversations, we've taken _________ a small bank loan to help fund the expansion.

If we had started talking to our bank earlier, we would likely have been able to _________ the funding we need sooner.

We make monthly _______ on the loan.

We expect to have paid _______ the loan by 2018 if all goes to plan.

What is the definition of "synergy" in a professional context?

Which word is a synonym for "pragmatic"?

Which word is a synonym for "resilience"?

Which word is a synonym for "sustain"?